Villordsutch reviews the final issue of IDW’s Star Trek Into Darkness prequel Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness… “The lead up to this Spring’s Star Trek Into Darkness continues here, in this official prequel mini-series overseen by writer/producer Roberto Orci. Captain Kirk and his crew will face an all-new adversary that threatens the future of the […]

Last year 20th Century Fox faced a race against the clock to get its planned Daredevil reboot into production; originally developed by David Slade (30 Days of Night, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), the project first hit the rocks when Slade opted to depart in favour of directing the pilot episode for NBC’s Hannibal, and despite […]

Despite the fact that Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is yet to get underway, we’re starting to get a sense at what Marvel Studios has planned for Phase Three; we already know that Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man will launch the third batch of Marvel movies in November 2015, while Marvel Studios supremo Kevin Feige […]

We’re only a few months away from Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim hitting our cinema screens and production has begun on Gareth Edward’s reboot of the Godzilla franchise. With all the monster madness coming from Legendary Pictures, CEO Thomas Tull took some time to speak to Collider about the upcoming kaiju flicks. Tull says that […]

Andy Naylor reviews the latest episode of Doctor Who… The Doctor and Clara embark on their very first adventure together, and Clara wants to go somewhere “awesome”. Matt Smith’s Doctor takes her to see The Rings of Akhaten, an ancient site that many religions believe to be the place where all life in the universe […]

The crowdfunding website Kickstarter made headlines recently thanks to a record-breaking campaign to raise financing for a movie version of the television series Veronica Mars, which has seemingly alerted Hollywood producers to this new – and potentially lucrative – source of funding. One filmmaker who has flirted with the idea of crowdfunding is Kevin Smith, […]

Not only will Hugh Jackman be bearing his claws as Wolverine again this summer for the sixth time, but we’ll also be seeing him in a seventh outing next year in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Jackman was speaking to Entertainment Weekly when the subject of playing Logan again came up. It seems […]

Mayday, 2013. Created by Ben Court and Caroline Ip.Starring Peter Firth, Peter McDonald, Leila Mimmack, Aidan Gillen, Sophie Okenedo, Lesley Manville, Max Fowler, Tom Fisher and Sam Spruell. SYNOPSIS: As a small community celebrates May Day, 14-year-old May Queen Hattie disappears. The BBC’s recent five-part thriller Mayday, shown on consecutive nights over one week last […]

Scanners: The Complete Collection DVD Box Set Scanners, 1981. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Charles Shamata. Scanners, for those who have not seen it – which was me – is a horror film which plays like a thriller, making for an interesting angle. The film wasn’t […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the season 3 finale of The Walking Dead… Season 2 of The Walking Dead was saved by its finale, and the expectations for the third season are expectedly high. Major spoilers follow… We know the anger swelling up inside the Governor and our first shot of “Welcome to the Tombs” is his […]